Correct. Thats why the Lipo should have been the stock battery.(and was probably designed that way initially)

Probably was the case being designed for Lipo and then they seen it is a potential upgrade sale to make it optional. The worst is the fact they overprice the "official" lipo so much, when it could be sold at a much more reasonable price and still be profitable.

Unfortunately I'm not sure this is the case, that there are no big issues.

I think it would be fair to assume that this radio is outselling the competition by some considerable margin so by sheer numbers alone we are going to see more problems of all kinds reported about the DX8 than other similar transmitters.

We have also moved from having huge numbers needing returns to HH for essential work to a sporadic few needing attention so I do thing it is fair to say that the big issues are in the past.

Balance of probability has got to be hugely in favor of getting a good one if you buy new right now.

I'd still advocate performing the tests that have been published for each of the big issues so far to ensure you are good to go, but I'm betting the vast majority are going to be just fine.

... and for those that aren't HH will fix the problems quickly and painlessly.

I'd love it if quality was better overall, but at the current price points we have to be pragmatic and understand that we do have the legendary HH support to stand behind the product when it is needed.

I think it would be fair to assume that this radio is outselling the competition by some considerable margin so by sheer numbers alone we are going to see more problems of all kinds reported about the DX8 than other similar transmitters.

We have also moved from having huge numbers needing returns to HH for essential work to a sporadic few needing attention so I do thing it is fair to say that the big issues are in the past.

Balance of probability has got to be hugely in favor of getting a good one if you buy new right now.

I'd still advocate performing the tests that have been published for each of the big issues so far to ensure you are good to go, but I'm betting the vast majority are going to be just fine.

... and for those that aren't HH will fix the problems quickly and painlessly.

I'd love it if quality was better overall, but at the current price points we have to be pragmatic and understand that we do have the legendary HH support to stand behind the product when it is needed.

Agreed, my bigger concern is issues that were supposedly only in the very initial batch of radios and noted as fixed are still showing up, so clearly the fix applied is not 100%.

The user really needs to do a full end to end QC process on their own before using the radio just to make sure it does work as advertised, better that then lose an aircraft because a "feature" lead to a crash. We cannot assume anything out of the box unfortunately.

It has much the same feel as the Xbox 360 release, push a product to market with known problems and just deal with them after the fact and win the war by sheer volume. This seems to be the approach HH is taking and just making sure the customer support can handle the load.

Again great radio for the price, I've just lost some confidence in the quality at this point. Spending $400+ and having to send it in for repair is not a great customer experience.

Take care, unlike some other designs (Hitec for example) , the extreme low voltage shut down protection is not built into the radio, it is in the special Lipo that Spektrum sell.

So if you do manage to leave the radio on with a 3rd party lipo installed and somehow don't hear the alarms it will go all the way down to lipo killing voltage levels.

When a TX LiPo lacks a BMS-chip like the Turnigy LiPo then is it unsave.
This is not a Spektrum problem.
With an orginal Spektrum TX LiPo with BMS and balancer the DX8 switch out by default before drained.
The same behaviour with an orginal Futaba TX LiPo with inbuild BMS and balancer.

When a TX LiPo lacks a BMS-chip like the Turnigy LiPo then is it not save.

Maybe you should read this! (personally to low should be 3~3.3v but none the less, and no I don't own one as the Standard NiMah pack is just fine and dandy!)

"The Turnigy DX8 Intelligent Transmitter Pack also features a built in voltage protection circuit, this circuit will automatically cutoff once the pack drops to 2.85v per cell ensuring the battery will not be damaged if you accidentally leave your transmitter switched on. The voltage protection circuit will also restrict charging to 4.2v per cell ensuring the pack can never be over charged."

"The Turnigy DX8 Intelligent Transmitter Pack also features a built in voltage protection circuit, this circuit will automatically cutoff once the pack drops to 2.85v per cell ensuring the battery will not be damaged if you accidentally leave your transmitter switched on. The voltage protection circuit will also restrict charging to 4.2v per cell ensuring the pack can never be over charged."

Interesting, it certainly doesn't seem to have worked to protect the pack shown earlier in this thread ...

2.85V is perfectly fine as a cut-off for such a low load like a TX, but something obviously didn't work right for the OP with the puffed pack.